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I've got a Les Paul Studio that does the following: switch to the bridge pickup and I get a diminshed sound, almost muffled and throaty (it sounds kinda John Lee Hooker actually) Not much of a bother, but it is inconsistant as hell. Does it only every once in a while. I took it to MARS (where I...

Hate to say it, but the phrase "decent cheap guitar" is an oxymoron. Jon X is dead on: you do indeed get what you pay for. For all the cheap "hockey sticks" I've owned in my life, I could've had a few great guitars. There's just no getting around the fact that anything under $500US new just...

I just heard a really good rumor about the POD: a roady/burner friend told me the shape was inpired by a xerox made of a secretary's rump at Line6. After you look at the unit, there's no denying!

This is kinda off the topic, and I probably should have posted this elsewhere, but... Did anyone see Metallica last night (11/17) with full Orchestra backing on VH-1? The purist I am, I thought it was going to be silly, but it was incredible! The arrangement was spectacular, and it really...

I just picked up the new Foo Fighters CD, and noted that the album was recorded in Dave Grohl's Virginia home, in between sessions of beer drinking and steak grilling on the back deck. It was great to see pics of the studio: blankets haphazardly tacked to the walls, cables everywhere, and some...

Ok gearheads, front and center!! I've got a friend who's looking for a reasonably priced Gibson Byrdland. He's been to most of the sites, and can't find anything even remotely affordable. If anybody's got a take on where to look, it would help. Why are Byrdies so expensive anyway? -- Gruhn...

It's amazing what you can do with a digital camera and Photoshop...

Does any have (or have played) the Carvin Allan Holdsworth signature guitar? It reads like a great instrument, but I wouldn't want to buy one direct without a test run or a sparkling referral. I understand he (Holdsworth) drove the Carvin guys nuts for years before they came up with something...

With all the registered members, you'd think this page would be jam-packed with pix of wall-to-wall gear! It's cool if you don't have a digital camera - if you ask, most film developing places (Fox, not Eckerd's) will give you a "picture disk" with your photos already set up as .JPG files. You...

This might be academic for alot of folks out there, but I need to know before I spend any more money on gear: What exactly is the difference between analog and digital? I thought I knew - 0's and 1' entered into "pits" in the CD blah blah. But I just finished a very good article that elaborated...

Does anyone have a good on-line source for cleaning fluids, demagnetizers and possibly the punch-in footswitch for the MKII? How about high quality CrO2 type II 60 minute cassettes?

http://www.sgi.net/vanhalen/studio.htm Yes, it's a link - but interesting, to say the least. See anything you might have?

-- hoping I did this right -- some of the veteran's probably remember when they were at this stage...

Does anyone have a tube amp they are truly pleased with (enough to forego using outboard overdrive or distortion units)? And, how does the Marshall valvestate stack up? My rig now consists of a Fender Princton (which has one of the best panning chorus effects I've heard) and a Zoom console...

My studio (a teeny bedroom) seems to be a very live space - I've considered covering the walls with fabric or foam, but don't know where to start. Anyone have any luck with certain materials, methods? Also, where to buy? ***Man, there's always something ELSE you have to have for a home studio!

I've been playing guitar for a quarter century and gigged around some, but very new to recording. Just really hate playing to tracks while wearing head phones, but unsure about running directly into mixer. As is I've miced the amp with a Shure 57, which runs into a Tascam 424mkII. The sound is...